A purpose derived from a false premise – that a deity has ordained submission to his will – cannot merit respect. The pursuit of Enlightenment-era goals — solving our world’s problems through rational discourse, rather than through religion a...
Ignorance. It claws, tears, and eventually destroys the threads that hold humanity together. These people all around me saying not this, not that… Their tongues untied with the rudeness they fear not to speak To those they know nothing of, nothing ...
Dr Ray Stantz: Every ancient religion has its own myth about the end of the world. Winston Zeddemore: Myth? Ray, has it ever occurred to you that maybe the reason we've been so busy lately is because the dead *have* been rising from the grave? [long ...
One increasingly hears rumors of a reconciliation between science and religion. In major news magazines as well as at academic conferences, the claim is made that that belief in the success of science in describing the workings of the world is no lon...
Other major world religions are still centered in the same general geographic area from which they originated except for Christianity. Even more intriguing, the center of Christian growth continues to move. Why? This author suggests that Christian pr...
has a feeling for the central order of things. He can detect it in the simplicity of natural laws. We may take it that he felt this simplicity very strongly and directly during his discovery of the theory of relativity. Admittedly, this is a far cry ...
Get busy living or get busy dying.
Was that tragedy? Or was that comedy? Was there really any difference?
...there was a difference between killing for nourishment and killing for curiosity or sport.
This generation... they have a different attitude. Instead of sitting and watching something, they want to be a part of it - they're very hedonistic and sensual.
Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down.
The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.
I don't know any architects that I respect who don't have their own voice. I think the difference between architecture and the other arts is your immersion in reality.
I like people that challenge their art, not only in the purist way, but also in terms of how they could provoke and make something different.
There is a definite argument to be made that videogames are becoming an art form put together by artists of different types.
Differences disappear when faced with death.
The world was different. The world feared touch.
What a difference having a friend makes.
A woman sees war differently.
My race is not a better race, it is simply a different race.
To die is different from what anyone supposed, and luckier.